CORY ARCANGEL

Cory Arcangel is an artist known world for hacking Nintendo games but has since shown he's interested in much more than that.

"Do you ever get tired of computers?"

It is impossible to get tired of computers these days. This is cause they are made to last only a few years. So once a user gets everything complied, configured, authorized, and running smoothly, the computer breaks and it is time to start all over again with a new one. It's never ending work.

ANGELO PLESSAS

Angelo Plessas is a unique artist making websites that are strange, nervous and poetic at the same time. He uses the internet to create portraits of people around him and many sides of himself.

"Do you believe in hard work?"

It's very random. Depends the way I wake up in the morning. Sometimes when I wake up I feel I am in a such productive and speedy mood that I go and work for 10 hours non-stop, but this does not work all the time. Some other times I get up in such a slow pace that nothing really feels will move ahead that day but out of the blue a miracle happen without even moving my little finger.

STEVEN SCHKOLNE

Steven Schkolne (Los Angeles) is an artist who manipulates images to show us how normal life can be. Also check out Schkolne Number.

"what is the one question i should ask you?"

"how tall are you?"

PETRA CORTRIGHT

Petra Cortright is a very young artist. Check out this amazing video. I saw it before and it didn't really hit me but now I realize it's greatness.

"Are you a busy person?"

Oh my god NO :( only in my fucked head. especially now. i don't do anything anymore. just half thought out / half effort for everything i do lately. but it is crazy if only someone could only see the notepad files, text messages, emails all to myself, meaningless to-do lists of google image search keywords, things to twitter later, ideas for some .gif, ideas for certain projects that will never happen... it's fucking insane because these things never get done. all i've been doing for a while is making lists and then the lists never get read and they get lost. i make folders on my computer and to name them i pound on the keyboard like eirtuyu43'; and then that is the name of the folder. so of course i know where nothing is and nothing gets read or thought about. then i decided i would put all the 35asgyewwm,\[ folders into one big folder that folder is called HELL and now it is the only folder on my desktop and i dunno what the fuck is in there. i wish i could do work or at least start cracking into HELL because god knows i got time. i got time cause i have no job and i amn not in school and live with my mom and my lil sis in california. i don't wanna be busy here though. i wake up everyday and just do want i want to do and that is what the fucking plan is. very selfish but its good relief cuz it is only a matter of time before i gotta go back to the stain on this earth new york city. i truly believe that city brings out a real sickness in people. if i was there right now i would have to answer this question totally different cuz there i am VERY busy but it is not even stuff i want to be busy with it is just trying to deal with so many cocksuckers 24/7 and there are all these problems and i have to be putting out fires all the time. SOMETIMES EVEN LITERALLY. oh god in reality it is so nice to be in california and i am not busy here and all i do is go to the beach and get tan and swim. and the water is so warm now so i like to swim everyday. i gotta go back to nyc soon tho cause i gotta go back to school so that i get a job that pays me money. when i get that money im gonna use it to never be busy, live on some epic land covered in heartbreaking landscape and do what i do best which is hang out and take care of tiny animals. i just want to collect too many of them fill my whole house collect them forever. striving for that "gotta catch em all" / "peasant vacation" style of life, u kno?

JODI

Jodi is a collective of two artists: Joan Heemskerk and Dirk Paesmans. They are pioneers of browser crashing, game hacking and overloading operating systems. For a list of their online pieces check their wikipedia entry.

"what is the biggest change you've witnessed?"

WYNE VEEN

Wyne Veen is a still life photographer from Amsterdam who appreciates the beauty of every day life.

Why do you spend so much time in bugetstores?

Because I appreciate the cheap factory effort that has been put into the products. The objects smell, have sharp edges, aren't suited for their function or are just extremely useless in general, they have ugly colors and you can break them in a split-second. All of this makes them quite tragic but also absurd and funny. The products are never really original, always some half baked reproduction of an existing product from a big(ger) brand. Therefore they reflect a small amount of pretence but not a very credible one.

These objects are so poorly produced they often become total failures. Even though these are mass products, their little or huge flaws tell you a lot about the ideas of the people involved in the production process, and that adds something personal. I go to Germany to find the nicest pieces and they make me very happy. The right kind of failure can be so precious. It shows the passing of time and effort, while something flawless only shows you that it is finished.

HARM VAN DEN DORPEL

Harm van den Dorpel is an internet artist living in amsterdam spending most of his time making ambiguous animations.

How do you imagine your future?

that is a very difficult question.

man should have a plan indeed, but

an artist should not know too exactly where to go in advance.

my artworks will make themselves:

the things i put a lot of time and effort in are generally less appreciated than things i do thoughtlessly and quick, and

often i know what to do by knowing what not to do, so

in the future i will cut off unnecessary parts of myself until the bare Harm is left, and

wait for the apocalypse to never happen

ALEXANDRE POLLAZZON

Alexandre Pollazzon is a French-born London-based Gallerist/Curator, always keeping his eyes opened for new possibilities.

What do you miss most in the art of today?

If there was something missing, I'm sure an artist would notice it. There are today so many various trends; contemporary artists use any kind of media from traditional oil painting to 35mm film and internet animation. Anything can be shown in galleries and museums. The real question is: how do we know an artwork is relevant enough to be exhibited today?

EXPERIMENTAL JETSET

Experimental Jetset is an Amsterdam graphic design unit founded in 1997 by Marieke Stolk, Erwin Brinkers and Danny van den Dungen. They use extreme logic, dry humour and bright colours in their posters, books, t-shirts and installations. Check their website and their myspace.

Are you romantic for the past?

No, not at all. We are romantic about nothing. We are very much interested in the past, but this interest is fully driven by our interest in the now. We really like the idea of the present as a place where the past and the future meet. To know the now, we feel as if we have to understand the past. Because we think that every form of progress is motivated by an active interest in history.
We recently came across a piece of text that formulated this perfectly: "The greatest modernizers inaugurate their career with a backward leap, and a renaissance proceeds through a return to the past, a recycling, and hence a revolution. (...) Behind the 're' of reformation, republic or revolution, there is a hand flicking through the pages of a book, from the end back to the beginning. Whereas the finger that pushes a button, fast-forwarding a tape or disc, will never pose a danger to the establishment".
(Quote from 'Print and Socialism', by Régis Debray, published in New Left Review, issue 46, July/Augustus 2007).

STINKING LIZAVETA

Stinking Lizaveta is an instrumental rock/metal trio from Philadelphia. I saw them play in Amsterdam and it was the most amazing show I've ever seen.

Do you ever get tired of being underground?

The fruit does not fall far from the tree.

MATTHEW STONE

Matthew Stone is an artist living in London, making huge photos of groups of people in baroque compositions. Check his blog and myspace.

do you feel part of a generation?

I do feel part of a generation. I have been interested for a long time in the idea that this feeling can have a motivational power within and upon a community. I feel we can look at ways to harness the romantic sway that comes from surrounding yourself with those that are desirous of everything at the same time. Maybe we can construct endless contexts and arenas for that sense of belonging to each other and turn the excitement that comes from it into fuller ways of living together and alone. But then of course it can be very dangerous to run too far in one direction.

LAUREN CORNELL

Lauren Cornell is a NY-based curator floating in the space between art and the great big internet.

What comes after contemporary art?

Contemporary archives and internet cave paintings.

MATTHIEU LAURETTE

Matthieu Laurette is an artist who deals with subjects like money and power.

are you a yuppie?

No I'm not a yuppie and what about you?

JEROME SANS

Jerome Sans is a curator who uses positive energy to generate beauty and excitement. He used to run the Palais de Tokyo together with Nicolas Bourriaud and now curates the Baltic Mill together with Peter Doroshenko.

What does the zeitgeist mean to you?

NOW

OLIVER LARIC

Oliver Laric is one of the few artists around who understands the internet and makes cool things at the same time. Check out his website: www.oliverlaric.com and his blog: www.vvork.com

"do you ever get the feeling you spend too much time online?"

NIKOLA TOSIC

Photo by Angelo Plessas

Nikola Tosic is an early member of neen, triathlete, supporter of Tagbanger and great friend. He writes beautiful and radical poetry as you can read in his book of 1000 poems, Nakitu Minayashi.

How has Neen affected your life?

To answer that I first need to define what neen is and this has always been a difficult thing to do.

I do not care much about the whole art thing and selling of websites. I am not a career artist. If someone wants to see me in a show I think this is great and I will always do it gladly. If someone wants to write or talk about me this is again great. If someone wants to give me money for something I made this is very good. But this is not because I hope to sell more of something but because I enjoy communicating to people and meeting people (and I need money). Shows and books and such offer me a challenge to think of something new and an opportunity to meet interesting people, although the older I am the harder it is to meet interesting people, or at least my idea of which people are interesting is not related to art shows. Now that we are clear on the fact that I am not motivated by selling my art we can proceed to the next argument.

Neen, for me, is a lifestyle, a philosophy about everything. I do not relate it so much to Miltos and I think he agrees with this. Other people in neen, not that they are relevant to my impression or relationship to neen, might be making a mistake to always expect something from Miltos or someone. Maybe I am wrong but this is how it seems to me. Neen is just the way we are. Miltos is a very smart guy, he "cheated" the guys in NYC into making this whole show so he would do what he always wanted to do ever since he was born: to find people who are like him so he would not feel alone. And he did find us.

I think this is the essence of neen: finding similar people not to feel alone. It is one of the most remarkable adventures I have heard of. The way it started and the way we are connected makes it, for me, equal to the lunar landing.

I think we are all very similar. In some weird way. On some strange transcendental level. It has nothing to do with art. Miltos insists that I should be an artist (maybe to be more similar to him) but I do not agree with this. I insist I must do art but I am not an artist nor I think neen is a form of art. It is a way of being, how things are experienced, it is a filter for reality - or better yet - it is reality how we see it. If we were all schizophrenic we would all see the same hallucinations.

How can I, a jobless Serbian bum, be connected to a Japanese girl, a Dutch guy, a Greek gay couple and some crazy Americans (I love using national stereotypes since they are a good illustration for diversity) - it is neen. It connects people and allows us to share an attitude towards everything.

And neen is an attitude.

How did it affect my life?

I can never really estimate this. No one is so wise to analyze something like this. Maybe my life would be exactly the same and I would do the same things but I would not talk to these but some other people. I would not use the word neen but some other word. Or maybe not. I do not know. Maybe I would invent neen myself if Miltos haven't invented it before.

I have met very inspiring people and I hope I have inspired them too. I hope I will meet more people and communicate to them.

Neen is part of my life, it is a principle, an everlasting inspiration in everything I do. Even if I try to ignore it it is still there. It does not depend on anyone or anything. It was always part of me and will always be part of me.

It is not as dramatical as I might make it sound. Actually I see it more as digestion or color of my eyes rather than something full of glory and drama. It is just that I think not many people have it and they are not in loss in any way because of that. Just as I am in no loss that I do not have brown but blue eyes. It is not a super-power but something normal that we share.

Miltos discovered neen just as Columbus discovered America even though Indians were already there thousands of years before he arrived. We are Indians and Miltos is Columbus.

It has definitely been a very positive thing in my life and I will try to exploit as such for as long as I can.

I would like to see more people become part of it. Communicating with neen people is what truly makes me happy and is one of highlights of my life. That and a good pop song and some fresh blueberries. I am easy to please even though I never seem satisfied.

CLAUDE CLOSKY

Claude Closky is an artist who works a lot on the internet and also makes these very cool PowerPoint paintings.

Do you like being interviewed?

Sometimes I do if I am interviewed by a man and there are few questions and the questions are short. Sometimes I do if I am interviewed by a man and there are few questions and the questions are long. Sometimes I do if I am interviewed by a man and there are many questions and the questions are short. Sometimes I do if I am interviewed by a woman and there are few questions and the questions are short. Sometimes I don't if I am interviewed by a man and there are few questions and the questions are short. Sometimes I do if I am interviewed by a man and there are many questions and the questions are long. Sometimes I do if I am interviewed by a woman and there are few questions and the questions are long. Sometimes I don't if I am interviewed by a man and there are few questions and the questions are long. Sometimes I do if I am interviewed by a woman and there are many questions and the questions are short. Sometimes I don't if I am interviewed by a man and there are many questions and the questions are short. Sometimes I don't if I am interviewed by a woman and there are few questions and the questions are short. Sometimes I do if I am interviewed by a woman and there are many questions and the questions are long. Sometimes I don't if I am interviewed by a man and there are many questions and the questions are long. Sometimes I don't if I am interviewed by a woman and there are few questions and the questions are long. Sometimes I don't if I am interviewed by a woman and there are many questions and the questions are short. Sometimes I don't if I am interviewed by a woman and there are many questions and the questions are long.

ANDREAS ANGELIDAKIS

Andreas Angelidakis is an architect who treats the internet as a real place.

how do buildings affect you emotionally?

I never said that buildings affect me emotionally, and now that I think about it, maybe that's why I like them so much, because they dont affect me emotionally. A nice building will make me happy or a great building will get me excited, but buildings never make me sad, I think I would find something interesting even in the most banal ugly building, I just like volumes in spaces and cities and windows and people and cables and sidewalks and the sun too. Buildings are great.

NIK ROOPE

Nik Roope is a guy who started as a web-cd-rom artist and then moved into internet-communication-advertising and the hulger phone.

do you use technology or does technology use you?

It depends from whose point of view you take. If you take my perspective, I use technology to my own ends and I am in control of it. But like any good parasitic relationship the host feeds and propagates the parasite. Humans are slowly, unwittingly evolving technology's sophistication and reach. So in the long term when technology becomes self knowing and looks back at its own history, it will have me and people like me to thank for its existence. It is using me whether I know it or not.